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as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
unredeemable sinners
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as in irreversible
not capable of being repaired, regained, or undone
misspelling the name of the store on the sign was hardly an unredeemable error—you can paint over your mistake
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Recent Examples of unredeemable
The society of Iverson’s youth rendered him an unredeemable thug and jailed him for it as a minor.
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Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
These are characters that sometimes may seem unredeemable.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
Reynolds portrays Clint Briggs, a supposedly unredeemable business consultant who has his world turned upside down by the Ghost of Christmas Present, played by Ferrell.
—Robert English, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2023
The most unlikable among them aren’t totally unredeemable.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
Her dad was unredeemable.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
Alongside health concerns, steering committee member Alicia Kendrick said that she and other residents are frustrated at how quickly some communities, like Joppa, are thought of as unredeemable.
—Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2022
What is left is a closer feeling of closeness to his characters — to ugly, sorrowing, tender, stalwart, ruined, unredeemable people, failing at their lives and yet trying, still, to live them.
—New York Times, 12 July 2022
Like focus, much can be left to the camera in auto mode, and even seemingly unredeemable exposure can often be corrected during editing.
—The Editors, Outdoor Life, 7 Jan. 2021
Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
These are characters that sometimes may seem unredeemable.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
Reynolds portrays Clint Briggs, a supposedly unredeemable business consultant who has his world turned upside down by the Ghost of Christmas Present, played by Ferrell.
—Robert English, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2023
The most unlikable among them aren’t totally unredeemable.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
Her dad was unredeemable.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
Alongside health concerns, steering committee member Alicia Kendrick said that she and other residents are frustrated at how quickly some communities, like Joppa, are thought of as unredeemable.
—Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2022
What is left is a closer feeling of closeness to his characters — to ugly, sorrowing, tender, stalwart, ruined, unredeemable people, failing at their lives and yet trying, still, to live them.
—New York Times, 12 July 2022
Like focus, much can be left to the camera in auto mode, and even seemingly unredeemable exposure can often be corrected during editing.
—The Editors, Outdoor Life, 7 Jan. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unredeemable
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The battle between parents and tech-savvy children over access to the Internet and apps might seem hopeless.Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
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Burns is asked how to avoid feeling hopeless during a stretch like this.Dan Duggan, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Nevertheless, the data is a glaring reminder that the planet is inching closer to irreversible damage.Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025
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The Japanese Foreign Ministry has warned that the country has until about 2030 before the trend is irreversible.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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As some progressives advocate for abandoning Democrats altogether, believing the party is irredeemable and too beholding to wealthy donors over voters, Williamson has consistently tried to work within the party.David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
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This big band take of a song already teetering on irredeemable absurdity, wants to be lush and seductive.Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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What To Know In a brief filed with a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., the Justice Department argued that accepting guilty pleas from Mohammed and his co-defendants would cause irreparable harm.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance also argue that even a temporary ban would cause irreparable harm to the platform.Maria Curi, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
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Still, a year before her record-tying stint at the Olympics, she was diagnosed with two incurable kidney diseases that almost stopped her in her tracks.Rachel Murphy, Health, 8 Jan. 2025
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After he was diagnosed with incurable grade 4 brain cancer in June 2023, Long developed a series of pioneering treatments inspired by melanoma breakthroughs.Janine Henni, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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For those who know Celine, two things repeatedly come to mind: her irrepressible smile and her incorrigible fight.Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
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Winning Is Everything, Stupid, by Matt Tyrnauer, goes deep into what shaped James Carville’s incorrigible character, including his Catholic, working-class youth in Carville—a Louisiana town with fewer than 900 inhabitants, almost half of them inmates at the local leper colony.airmail.news, airmail.news, 3 Oct. 2024
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